Re: Problem with pg_hba.conf file in Postgres 7.3 - Mailing list pgsql-novice

On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 21:30, April Carvalho wrote:
> The files in question were the ones referenced in pg_hba.conf:
>
> host       db1  @db1_users          10.0.0.0   255.255.255.0    md5
>
> There are actually several lines (and several user lists) in this file.
> Files like @db1_users, were in /etc/postgresql/, since pg_hba.conf was
> there. This made sense at the time, because, according to the postgres
> docs, they should be in the same folder as pg_hba.conf.
> However, the debian package has $PGDATA/pg_hba.conf has a link
> to /etc/postgresql/pg_hba.conf.  Postgres is probably expecting
> pg_hba.conf to be in $PGDATA, and Debain expects it in /etc/postgresql.
> If I knew nothing of Debian, perhaps this wouldn't have happened.
>
> Funny huh?

I need to add some documentation about this.

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